Untrusted search path vulnerability in McAfee VirusScan for Linux 4510e and earlier includes the current working directory in the DT_RPATH environment variable, which allows local users to load arbitrary ELF DSO libraries and execute arbitrary code by installing malicious libraries in that directory.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-6457 Untrusted search path vulnerability in McAfee VirusScan for Linux 4510e and earlier includes the current working directory in the DT_RPATH environment variable, which allows local users to load arbitrary ELF DSO libraries and execute arbitrary code by installing malicious libraries in that directory.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T20:26:46.592Z

Reserved: 2006-12-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-6474

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2006-12-14T20:28:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2006-6474

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